The narrator in this book reminds me of Lise, the main
character in Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat. Boulder is
tired of life and her job, leaving her washed out.
This book explores the lives of women in a
triptych first-person style with little men in sight. The cynical unnamed narrator also happens to be a young lesbian
navigating her life through sex and depression.
Routine
affects peoples’ lives differently, and love has no
boundaries, so as the story evolves over ten years, we find Boulder and Samsa
discussing the possibility of having a child. A solid read about an existential crisis.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no - and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must…
Based on a true story in 1982, when Klecko was a young man from
Minnesota, he threw away his life only to reclaim it while hitchhiking to Texas
in the dead of winter.
Various passages define all the hunger and untrustworthy people Klecko encounters during his travels.Nevertheless, he ends up encountering more random acts of kindness than negativity, thus enriching his life by meeting strangers and rekindling old friendships that taught him how to be resilient and confident.
"3 a.m. Austin Texas" is based on a true story of the author, Klecko. In 1982, when he was a young Minnesota man, still in his late teens, he threw away his life only to reclaim it while hitchhiking to Texas in the dead of winter. Long before the days of cellphones, this journey, made in abject solitude, save for a few people he met along the way, taught him how to be resilient and gain confidence.
Jonah, who’d been married for 12 years, decides to leave California and head back home on the open road to Albuquerque with his sister Nell. As Nell and Jonah cross the American West, is there an
underlying message that happiness can be found anywhere, even for those who’ve
left home in search of greater things?
As siblings, Nell and Jonah’s rocky
relationship is the centerpiece of the story. It showcases a mythological and
supernatural element fans of dark fantasy will relish. As the novel climaxes,
we find Nell possessed by an ancient spirit, and the deeper this mysterious
possession latches onto her, the desolation of the Nevada desert cannot save
them from the ghastly violence that unexpectedly finds them.
For horror fans, this is an intense
story of blood, gore, action, and phantasmagoria.
One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"!
"Lyons
burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and] keeps the pages
flying with fast-paced chills." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller set across the American Southwest.
Road trips can be hell.
Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn't be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah's divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown…
My book is an intriguing tale of
manipulation. The novel chronicles the activities of Radulf, an architect and
writer living in Germany, a man whose psyche is in a state of constant trauma
about the fact that he has no real moral compass.
He vents this frustration by
viewing the world as a selfish place despite his success. In a kind of desire
for revenge, Radulf perfects his skills of manipulation by gaining the trust of
victims by exploiting their innocence and dreams with promise and illusion.
Radulf’s actions reveal shocking truths about
the trusting nature of humanity and about our own perspectives on what’s actually
real in the world we live. This is a cautionary narrative about covert narcissism and a progressive elitist who concedes to nihilism.
